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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 21, 2016Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia; Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia; Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, City of Covington, VA, Greenbrier County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 21, 12:04 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:04 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 5:24 AM EDT, 7 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:45 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1245 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

VAZ011-018-019-WVZ043-044-507-508-211745-
CRAIG-ALLEGHANY-GILES-EASTERN GREENBRIER-SUMMERS-WESTERN
GREENBRIER-MONROE-
1245 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CRAIG...NORTHEASTERN
GILES...SOUTHWESTERN ALLEGHANY...SUMMERS... SOUTHWESTERN GREENBRIER
AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 1243 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR SANDSTONE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THE STRONGER STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HINTON...
RONCEVERTE...
ALDERSON...
UNION...
AND NEW CASTLE.

THIS INCLUDES THE WEST VIRGINIA STATE FAIRGROUNDS.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3759 8000 3758 7999 3735 8029 3737 8033
      3735 8034 3761 8107 3763 8107 3770 8098
      3772 8097 3770 8091 3767 8090 3768 8088
      3773 8090 3774 8092 3777 8089 3782 8094
      3787 8081 3787 8075 3793 8080
TIME...MOT...LOC 1643Z 297DEG 40KT 3780 8092

KK

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1255 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

VAZ019-020-WVZ507-508-211800-
BATH-ALLEGHANY-EASTERN GREENBRIER-WESTERN GREENBRIER-
1255 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BATH...CITY OF
COVINGTON...ALLEGHANY AND GREENBRIER COUNTIES...

AT 1252 PM EDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SUMMERSVILLE TO RAINELLE...AND MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALLEGHANY...
COVINGTON...
CLIFTON FORGE...
LEWISBURG...
AND WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3822 8036 3811 8036 3804 8021 3806 7996
      3810 7993 3813 7995 3818 7992 3821 7987
      3816 7953 3770 7992 3763 8008 3793 8080
      3799 8077 3804 8083 3806 8080 3806 8086
      3808 8089 3810 8088 3808 8071 3827 8044
TIME...MOT...LOC 1652Z 276DEG 27KT 3824 8088 3796 8076

KK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	60 min
Jun 21, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Botetourt, Craig	62 min
Jun 21, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath, Rockbridge	70 min
Jun 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, City of Covington, City of Lexington	52 min
Jun 21, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Craig	53 min
Jun 21, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	62 min
Jun 21, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Tazewell, Wythe	54 min
Jun 21, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe	54 min
Jun 21, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox	45 min
Jun 21, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Rockbridge, City of Covington, City of Lexington	54 min
Jun 21, 6:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Tazewell	3 hr
Jun 21, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Grayson, Smyth	66 min
Jun 21, 7:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Smyth	3 hr
Jun 21, 3:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2016 Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.